Installing Skype on openSUSE 11.3 – 64 bit

The openSUSE project is going to release openSUSE 11.3 very soon, and, as usual, some additional work is necessary to make Skype work on the 64 bit version, since the original package for openSUSE 11+ is compiled only for 32-bit systems. These instructions are not necessary on 32-bit systems.

Before installing the Skype RPM you find on Skype website, you have to install the following packages, if not already present on your system:

libasound2-32bit
xorg-x11-libXv-32bit
xorg-x11-libs-32bit
libqt4-32bit
libqt4-x11-32bit
libpng12-0-32bit

These packages were not installed by default on my system after performing a clean installation of openSUSE 11.3 from the KDE live-CD. It is possible they are already present in other configurations.

Enjoy! 🙂

12 Comments

Tony Cavanna

July 25, 2010 at 1:37 am

I’ve just upgraded to 11.3 and found skype failed with a Segmentation fault even after I re-installed it. The problem was fixed by installing the latest version of libqt4-x11-32bit.

Martin

August 4, 2010 at 7:49 pm

zypper in libasound2-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit xorg-x11-libs-32bit libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit libpng12-0-32bit

— for everybody’s copy-paste convenience.

Marek

August 14, 2010 at 2:29 pm

It helped. Thanks.

vp

August 25, 2010 at 12:42 am

Well, installing those packages on my Dell Studio 1555 didn’t help with Skype – sound doesn’t work. I’ve tried mucking around in Skype options but I didn’t accomplish much and beyond that, well, the audio stack of Linux is not one of my areas of expertise. If you or anyone else have any ideas, I’d be very grateful. 🙂

akrom

August 29, 2010 at 10:37 pm

hay
thanx 😉 now is working property

Frank

September 6, 2010 at 12:08 pm

Thank you Martin for the copy/paste bit. That did it for me (64-bit opensuse 11.3).

Ne Ruvi

September 10, 2010 at 11:08 pm

After going to a few pages and looking around for the best possible solution,… this did the trick for me..! THANK YOU..!!

Chris

September 29, 2010 at 3:25 pm

Thank you! Keep the tips coming!

Mork

November 10, 2010 at 4:31 am

After following this i had no joy – all libs were up to date. i even downgraded the libs but to no avail.
Then I found this lovely and (sigh) simple answer solved-skype-crashing.

Simply delete (or rename) ~/.Skype !